Las Vegas Daily Gazette ([Las Vegas, N.M.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,118 issues from 1881 to 1886, published in Las Vegas, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
The seat of San Miguel County in New Mexico, Las Vegas dates back to 1850 It was initially known as San Miguel del Bado, which was founded in 1794. Settlers and officials saw the plains near the Rio Gallina to the north as an outlet for expansion, so in 1821 Luis Maria C de Baca petitioned for a land grant at Las Vegas Grandes, the big meadow. The formal name of the resulting settlement was Nuestra Senora de Las Vegas, Our Lady of the Meadows. An 1829 military report referred to the area as Begas de Las Gallinas, and sometimes residents referred to the area simply as Las Gallinas.
Las Vegas became an important stop on the Santa Fe Trail. With the arrival of the Atlantic & Santa Fe Railroad in 1879, Las Vegas quickly evolved into three towns: West Las Vegas, East Las Vegas, and a suburb that peaked in 1870 with 796 residents and then declined. Cultural differences created strong rivalries between the new and predominantly Anglo east Las Vegas and the older and prominently Hispanic west Las Vegas. The two communities once had separate post offices.
The Las Vegas Gazette began publication on September 27, 1872. During its lifetime, it went through numerous changes. The paper supposedly suspended publication between October 1873 and March 22, 1874. In 1886, the article was added to the title Las Vegas Gazette. The Gazette was preceded by the Las Vegas Mail published by Simon H. Newman and his co-editor W.N. Bollinger. In 1872, while Newman was in jail for political reasons,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Las Vegas, New Mexico, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress